![]() For this is a town where food is scarce and rats are hated, where cellars are lined with deadly traps, and where a terrifying evil lurks beneath the hunger-stricken streets. But when Maurice and his cohorts decide to con the town of Bad Blinitz, it will take more than fast talking to survive the danger that awaits. This streetwise alley cat knows the value of cold, hard cash and can talk his way into and out of anything. The Amazing Maurice runs the perfect Pied Piper scam. They'd have been really amazed if they'd ever found out that the rats and the piper met up with a cat somewhere outside of town and solemnly counted out the money. And they were amazing when the rats followed hint out of town. ![]() After a few days of this, it was amazing how glad people were to see the kid with his magical rat pipe. ![]() ![]() One rat, popping up here and there, squeaking loudly, and taking a bath in the cream, could be a plague all by himself. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I will neither be listening to Homewood again nor reading more books by Stendhal. So I did not enjoy the humor, or the wordy writing, or the incredible romances. The French pronunciation was fine but I disliked his added dramatics, even if perhaps he was merely exaggerating what the author intended to be exaggerated. I must repeat my earlier statement found below: if this is a book that is supposed to offer a psychological study of characters, why are my feelings toward Julien, the main character, only lukewarm? The famed actor Bill Homewood narrated the audiobook I listened to. The question is - did I ever really laugh? No. I preferred the more subtle humor at the beginning. This is a book of satire and by the end the author's "message" has been pounded into you. The book is extremely slow, even if it does pick speed as it nears the end only to fall again to turtle velocity at the conclusion. Perhaps that was a translation problem? I am not sure. ![]() ![]() I was bugged to no end by the excessive use of etcetera and etcetera over and over again. The language is old-fashioned, formal, complicated and wordy. The writing becomes more and more absurd the further you progress into the novel. I disliked the intertwining of its two central themes, one being a criticism of French Bourbon society after the fall of Napoleon and the crazy, unbelievable love affairs. ![]() ![]() ![]() We saw representation that was not done right," she says. "We all grew up with that as Indigenous people. "But of course, there was some stuff that was not done accurately," says Wapanatâhk matter-of-factly.Īmong the racist depictions in the movie is a song called What Made The Red Man Red? We just we loved all the classics." Including the 1953 animated version of Peter Pan. Wapanatâhk says, growing up in Conklin, Alberta, in Canada, she loved watching Disney movies. ![]() In the Disney+ movie Peter Pan & Wendy, Tiger Lily is played by Alyssa Wapanatâhk, a member of the Bigstone Cree First Nation. Barrie classic does try to correct a character now widely considered racist. Alyssa Wapanatâhk as Tiger Lily in Disney's live-action Peter Pan & Wendy on Disney+.Īfter more than 100 years, Peter Pan still hasn't grown up.īut a new version of the old, J.M. ![]() ![]() Right now her focus is on finishing The Atherton Pack and Hounds of the Hunt.Ĥ. Toni has several ongoing series, so at any given time Toni is working on one of those. What series are you currently working on? The additions to Archie completely changed the world and the Hounds universe, however the romance between Archie and Adze is just as sweet.ģ. Jordan's Accidental Adoption - Not Applicable Pyro's Accidental Shooting - Not Applicable Archie's Accidental Kidnapping - An additional 41, 000 words Corey's Christmas Bundle - Not Applicable None of the additions change the overall arc of the story and its romance, Toni only expanded the story to give it and the characters more depth. A Very Holland Collection - Not Applicable (*Combines A Very Holland Christmas and A Very Holland Valentine) A Very Holland Valentine - Not Applicable A Very Holland Christmas - An additional 1, 500 words Forbidden Mate - An additional 50, 000 words ![]() Protective Mate - An additional 25, 000 words ![]() Determined Mate - An additional 19, 000 words Unexpected Mate - An additional 17, 000 words Several of your books have been republished, and have been expanded, which of your stories underwent expansion? ![]() Toni's publisher, Mischief Corner Books, as well as third party sites such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, KOBO, Playster, iBooks, Scribd, and more online retailers.Ģ. ![]() ![]() As elsewhere in the Eastern Bloc rock became an important feature of the counter-culture. The Ukraine was then a part of the Soviet Union and the official language, Russian. In 1971 Volodymir Ivasiuk became a figurehead for Ukrainian nationalism through his song Chervona Ruta. These developments are mirrored in events in the Ukraine since the 1980’s. At this time Rimsky-Korsakov’s stand on the Ukraine is clear composing both May Night and Christmas Eve at that time based on Gogol’s pointed Dikanka stories. Reports that a dangerous state existed in the Ukraine resulted in the Ems Ukaz banning all elements of Ukrainian culture. Following fears of separatist inclinations Valuev wrote, ‘No separate Little Russian language has existed, does exist, and can exist, ’. Many Ukrainian’s rose to significant positions and Russians began to resent them labelling them ‘Little Russian infestation’. ![]() Ukraine’s universities had been established before those in Russia. ![]() The Ukraine was culturally, linguistically and socially different to Russia. Irrespective of offers of European mediation Catherine 2nd pursued her territorial ambitions and annexed the Crimea. The Council of Pereiaslav resulted in the Ukraine becoming an integral part of Russia and the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca left the Crimea independent but gave Russia control of the key ports. Today there is a focus on Russian actions in the Crimea and the Ukraine but is this unique. ![]() ![]() Until then, Anna and Kaidan must put aside the issues between them, overcome the steamiest of temptations yet, and face the ultimate question: is loving someone worth risking their life? It soon becomes clear that whatever freedoms Anna and the rest of the Neph are hoping to win will not be gained without a fight. When an unexpected lost message from the angels surfaces, Anna finds herself traveling the globe with Kopano, son of Wrath, in an attempt to gain support of fellow Nephilim and give them hope for the first time. And all the while there's Kaidan Rowe, son of the Duke of Lust, plaguing her heart and mind. Haunted by demon whisperers, Anna does whatever she can to survive, even if it means embracing her dark side and earning an unwanted reputation as her school's party girl. Anna Whitt, daughter of a guardian angel and a demon, promised herself she'd never do the work of her father-polluting souls. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some areas hit by the storm were affected by water shortages.īy Tuesday, the UK Met Office reduced the area covered by a yellow weather warning, though it said windy weather is still likely. In Cumbria in northwest England, part of a soccer club’s stand was ripped off by the wind. In Dumfries and Galloway in western Scotland, a scout hall roof was blown off amid winds of up of up to 77 mph. ![]() Train services between Glasgow and Edinburgh, London and Aberdeen and Dundee and Perth were slowed down by trees that were blown onto the tracks. Irish authorities said it could take several days to restore power to 330,000 homes.Ĭommuters faced delays and downed trees blocked rail lines. Schools in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland were closed for a second day as authorities assessed the damage from the worst storm to hit Ireland in decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The mothdrive that permitted fast travel between star systems was an exotic technology. The heptarchate’s exotic technologies depended on the high calendar’s configurations: the numerical concordances, the feasts and remembrances, the associated system of belief. The high calendar is an axiomatic system of beliefs, concordances, and ritual observances necessary to the obtention of “exotic” technological effects that suspend or surpass the ordinary laws of physics, including faster than light travel: We know from the novel that there used to be seven ruling factions, but that one of them, the Liozh, the philosopher/ethicist caste, was eliminated for “heresy”, having tried to introduce democracy and a measure of freedom into the totalitarian regime of the high calendar and its compulsory “remembrances”. The action takes place many years before NINEFOX GAMBIT, as the novel’s hexarchate is in this story still a heptarchate. ![]() ![]() “The Battle of Candle Arc”, by Yoon Ha Lee, is a short story set in the same universe as his novel NINEFOX GAMBIT.It was first published in 2012 in Clarkesworld Magazine ( text and audio), and was later included in an anthology of his stories entitled CONSERVATION OF SHADOWS. ![]() ![]() ![]() And his distaste for Alexis Malvern is slowly growing into feelings of quite a different sort. Ward, James' former paramour, has a secret that could change his life forever. But even a charmed life like James' is not without its setbacks.Ī terrible fire threatens to end his merchant career before it's had a chance to truly begin. With Malvern's daughter Alexis running away to the country after a terrible tragedy and refusing to return, James' ascent to head of the company seems inevitable. James Lionel Falconer has risen quickly from a mere shop worker to being the right-hand man of Henry Malvern, head of the most prestigious shipping company in London. ![]() From New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the highly anticipated second book in the House of Falconer saga. ![]() ![]() All we know is that it is so heinous, it has forced their mum, single parent Sheela, to uproot the family from Oxford to a cottage on the North Yorkshire coast. We witness what leads up to the transgression: a trio of bullies circulate topless photos of July September lures them to some disused tennis courts to exact revenge. ![]() The novel follows them in their late teens and begins after one of September’s schemes causes something unspeakable to happen at school. September wreaks havoc with cruel pranks, while July is “tugged behind like a kite”. ![]() The order of their births shapes their dynamic as they grow up. September and July are an inseparable, insular pair, with the bold, domineering September born just 10 months ahead of her more circumspect sister. In her second novel – a lithe, dizzyingly good Gothic thriller – she mines another seam of complicated familial love: the bond between siblings. In 2018, Daisy Johnson became the youngest author ever to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize – she was 27 – with her mesmerising debut Everything Under, about a difficult mother-daughter relationship. ![]() |